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WHEAT BERRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour

Synonyms:

wheat; wheat berry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("wheat berry" is a kind of...):

cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)

Meronyms (parts of "wheat berry"):

wheat germ (embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wheat berry"):

bulghur; bulgur; bulgur wheat (parched crushed wheat)

cracked wheat (grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces)

Holonyms ("wheat berry" is a part of...):

common wheat; Triticum aestivum (widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A grain of wheat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("wheat berry" is a kind of...):

caryopsis; grain (dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn)

Holonyms ("wheat berry" is a part of...):

wheat (annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains)

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